Mattie Pearl Johnson

Friday

Aug 28, 2009 at 12:01 AM

Mattie Pearl Johnson, 77, of Aliquippa, went home to be with her Lord on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009, in Heritage Valley Beaver.

Born April 28, 1932, in Preston, GA, she was a daughter of the late Eleanor Johnson Harris and stepdaughter of the late Otis Harris. She was a resident of Aliquippa for 30 years, where she was well known.

She leaves to cherish her precious memory eight children, Walter and his wife Denice Clarit, in Georgia; Gilbert and his wife Dorthy Mealer, in North Carolina; Nora and her husband Waymon Cruell, Tacoma, WA; General and his wife Pamela Mealer, in North Carolina; Ronnie Whitfield, Miami, FL; Jacqueline Zimmerman, Philadelphia, PA; Della Mack, Beaver Falls, who was with her during her time of need, and Bryant Whitfield, Las Vegas, NV; 22 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; two aunts, Ora Lee Walden, in Georgia, and Mamie Ison, Philadelphia; an uncle, Henry Johnson, Philadelphia; stepsister, Odell Brown, Aliquippa; stepbrother, Charlie (Terri) Harris, in New York; devoted friends, Andrea Price, Charles Williams, Eula Strickland, Delores Drake, John Oxendine, Eva Moore and the Unis family, and a host of other relatives and friends.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two aunts, six uncles, two children, and two grandchildren.

The family would like to give special thanks to the Department of Aging, Colleen Dillman, the staff at Friendship Ridge Annex I, and the staffs of the emergency room and CCU at Heritage Valley Beaver.

Friends will be received today from 6 to 8 p.m. in the New Hope Temple C.O.G.I.C., Fourth and Jefferson, Aliquippa, where a service will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. with her pastor, Elder Emanuel Moreland, officiating.

Interment will be private.

Friends will also be received at the home of William and Belinda Walker, 785 Franklin Ave., Aliquippa.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the SHEFFIELD ALIQUIPPA FUNERAL HOME, 920 Franklin Ave.

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